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I think it is your location within the UK, not the whole climate of the UK. I would think there are many worse climates on this planet. If at all possible try moving down towards London. You yourself stated that the climate there is much better than your present location.
It's better in that it's consistently warmer, not sure how much more interesting though. It certainly gets a lot less snow than I do which others would find less interesting but I would prefer due to not liking snow much.
Lightning is not common at all when looking at it from a global perspective. In fact most of Europe sees little in the way of lightning...
We in the Midwest get a ton of lightning, but our window is short, only 6 months time. Check out the lightning strikes from May thru Oct 2010
2010 was one of the least thundery years on record in the UK so while the UK does generally have sod all lightning compared to say the midwest, over a longer sample period it would show up better on this type of map.
2010 was one of the least thundery years on record in the UK so while the UK does generally have sod all lightning compared to say the midwest, over a longer sample period it would show up better on this type of map.
2010 was one of the least thundery years on record in the UK so while the UK does generally have sod all lightning compared to say the midwest, over a longer sample period it would show up better on this type of map.
That map is inaccurate. July 2010 had a t-storm in Helsinki that made the news in the UK. And we had almost constant stormy weather during 29 July - 8 August.
They happen more frequently than we think - the golf-sized hail not so much (virtually unheard of actually), but the rainfall, almost constant thunder, lightning and cloudbursts aren't too uncommon - I can think of examples here myself on numerous occasions - I've already mentioned the storm we got here in September 2006 but that had a cloudburst (some say tornado, but there is no evidence of that) with incredibly heavy rainfall, so even if there was a tornado, it wouldn't have been visible.
But anyway, it just shows that the UK can get very severe weather that can rival the best other places have to offer (such as France, not the US), even if it isn't common.
What about gales that come in off the Atlantic? I don't think they are boring at all. I've seen on the news some amazing gale storms hit the UK. I think more boring would be day in and day out of blue skies with no clouds. That gets old real fast.
I find those interesting but they've also been uncommon recently. Too much blue sky and no clouds would get boring from a weather variety POV but I would at least be out and about a lot more. Still better than endless cloud with no sun by far.
That map is inaccurate. July 2010 had a t-storm in Helsinki that made the news in the UK. And we had almost constant stormy weather during 29 July - 8 August.
Doesn't your national weather service have data on tstorm days? Check into that. It might be more accurate.
That map is inaccurate. July 2010 had a t-storm in Helsinki that made the news in the UK. And we had almost constant stormy weather during 29 July - 8 August.
This map of lightning?
Should be, it's satellite data, but it only count's cloud to ground lightning strikes. Intra-cloud lightning isn't even counted...
Yes. its pretty bad no matter what some people on this forum say. no real summer, no real winters
hot weather usually lasts for 3 days and snow cold weather for equally long.
its just inbetween hot and cold most of the time which is boring and depressing after a while
Also some "summer" days are just as cold as january days here which really speaks for itself!
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